Meaning Of The Word Eugenics

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eugenics
uncountable noun: Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by carefully selecting parents who will produce the strongest children.

eugenics in American English
the movement devoted to improving the human species through the control of hereditary factors in mating
noun: the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits ( negativ

eugenics in British English
noun: the study of methods of improving the quality of the human race, esp by selective breeding

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